The European Commission announced on Monday that the Dutch hotel reservation platform Booking was now subject to new, stricter competition rules imposed in the EU on a handful of “tech” giants.
The Digital Markets Regulation (DMA) aims to monitor and stem abuse of dominant position to better protect the emergence and growth of start-ups in Europe and improve the choice offered to users. It has already applied since the beginning of March to certain services of five American giants – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft – and to the social network TikTok, owned by the Chinese group ByteDance.